Glory

Titled “Power and Glory,” Fairey’s new exhibition seeks to question, “Whose power? Whose glory?” He explores political and economic themes that draw attention to the destructive forms of capitalism, a system he calls “awesome” but one in which there “must be referees.” Fairey feels the idea of the American…

The name Harriet Tubman inextricably linked to the Underground Railroad, the network of secret safe houses and safe routes that were used by enslaved Africans in the United States to escape to freedom in states without slavery or to Canada. The iconic image of Tubman is of her staring straight ahead, her piercing eyes looking directly at a hypothetical camera without the trace of a smile, frozen in time. However, other interpretation and depiction of this iconic figure exists and it on display…

What were the major causes and consequences of the era of the American malaise? During the 1950’s and the 1960’s, the Glory years, Americans had become very confident in their country. Near the end of the 1960’s, America had accomplished sending a man into space and successfully landing him on the moon. America also was the first country to access nuclear weapons. As men came back home from World War 2 in 1945, the birth rate started to escalate from 18.6% to 23%. Though the unemployment rate…

Upon visiting the Jack Shainman Gallery, I was captivated by a light installation piece of art made from a famous photograph. The name of the photograph is called “The Soiling of Old Glory” by Stanley Forman. This picture is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken in Boston during a riot in front of a courthouse in 1976 (Highbrow). The exhibition I chose to study belongs to Hank Willis Thomas and is called What We Ask Is Simple. Just with reading the name alone I was intrigued. To view this…

“The Soiling of Old Glory” photograph and the Alcatraz Proclamation given by a Native American rights group called Indians of All Tribes, show a resistance to Federal Government regulation that infringe human rights. The Indians of All Tribes being able to infiltrate the island…

In this chapter of Empire of Liberty which I titled The Rising Glory of America, the author Gordon Wood bring the almost golden age beginnings of this relatively new nation and its bright future that we know today. He writes about culture, “Through the multiplication of newspapers, magazines, circulating libraries, and book clubs, through public exhibitions of paintings and the engraving and distribution of prints…Englishmen and other Europeans sought to exploit the arts in order to reform their…

In the movie Glory I found that my favorite part was when Col. Robert Shaw announced to the soldiers that if you are a black soldier and are captured during battle they will be returned to slavery and if you are a white soldier and something happens to your men you will be put to death and you are allowed to leave by morning if you want. Then the next morning everybody is still there. This part stood out to me because it shows how much all these men wanted to be free. They were willing to risk…

Well some of the most commonly know discriminations are the treatment of people with a different skin color, religion, age, and many more but those are the main three I will talk about. In the movie Glory Road it shows the journey of the first African American college basketball team. In this movie the African American players are booed, beat up, spit, and constantly looked down upon. These fans and community of college basketball discriminated against…

Glory & Honor is a historical drama that focuses on Robert Peary (Henry Czerny) and his assistant Matthew Henson (Delroy Lindo). Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania on May 6, 1856, but moved to Portland, Maine where he grew up and went to Bodowin College in Brunswick, Maine. He then became a civil engineer for the United States Navy who was held in the highest regard due to his “exceptional talents” (Robinson 118). It was these talents that would lead him to be the first man to claim…

“…Economics got the right answer: free market policies, supported but not encumbered by the government, deliver growth and prosperity” (135). However, there is a strong claim of contradiction by economists Jean Dreze and Amarty Sen in “An Uncertain Glory”, who debunk Shleifer’s argument…